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Marriott International announced the addition of five hotels to the Luxury Collection brand.
The additions are the Wellesley and the Westbury in London; the new Hôtel de Berri in Paris; Cristallo Resort & Spa in Cortina, Italy, the Luxury Collection’s first ski resort; and the Alexander in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Luxury Collection brand plans to add 12 new properties in 2017, according to Mitzi Gaskins, who heads the unit.
The Luxury Collection brand …

Air Canada announced that it plans to launch new service to both Frankfurt and London from Vancouver next year. The airline will offer daily seasonal flights to Frankfurt beginning June 1, and thrice weekly seasonal service to London Gatwick Airport starting June 8, 2017.
Flights to Vancouver International Airport will depart at 12:25 p.m. and arrive at Frankfurt Airport at 7:05 a.m. the next day. From Frankfurt, flights will depart at …

British Airways announced that it plans to launch a new route linking London Gatwick and Oakland, California on March 28 next year. The carrier will operate the route four days a week, using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.
Flights will depart London Gatwick at 10:20 a.m. on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, as well as at 11:25 a.m. on Tuesdays, and will arrive at Oakland International Airport at 1:15 p.m. and 2:20 p.m., respectively. …

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways announced that they will soon offer new codeshare flights with Indian carrier Jet Airways.
Beginning November 2, Jet Airways will be able to place its code on Delta-operated flights from London Heathrow to nine U.S. cities, Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Seattle,
Also on that date, Delta will be allowed to place its code on Jet Airways flights …

British Airways announced that it will begin to offer new service between London Gatwick and Fort Lauderdale, Florida on July 6, 2017. The route will be the carrier’s third service to Florida from London Gatwick.
Flights are scheduled to depart London at 9:25 a.m. and arrive at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 1:45 p.m. the same day Return flights will depart Fort Lauderdale at 5 p.m. and arrive back in London …

Delta Air Lines announced it was moving those flights currently operating from Terminal 4 at London Heathrow to Terminal 3, the home of its joint venture partner, Virgin Atlantic.
The move is effective September 14, 2016.
The Atlanta-based airline currently operates its flights from Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia to London out of Terminal 4, where most SkyTeam-member airlines are located.
Flights to and from New York, Boston, and Seattle …

An app that lets people order food at restaurants for as little as half the price is now available in London.
Too Good to Go, which was started by entrepreneurs to cut down on waste by giving restaurants a way of selling food that would otherwise have been thrown away, is already available in several cities in the United Kingdom including Brighton, Leeds, and Manchester.
A meal costs between £2 to £3.80 …

It was love at first sight and the most unexpected encounter I’ve ever had at a hotel. Sally, a Chihuahua mix, was living large in the reception area of the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort and Spa, looking for a guest to adopt as part of the hotel’s pet adoption program.
Sally let me take her for a walk around the property’s beautiful grounds and it was clear that we enjoyed …

Pan Am, the nation’s unofficial flag carrier and a cultural icon, ceased operations on Wednesday (December 4) after what could only be described as a tumultuous decade both for both the airline and the airline industry. It is the second major U.S. airline to cease operations this year.
Had Frequent Business Traveler existed in 1991, some 25 years ago, that could have been the lead paragraph of the top news story …